From priory to gallery

A campaign to keep a multi-million-pound painting in Yorkshire got under way yesterday as the masterpiece went on display in the National Gallery in London.

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Oct 2010, 00:05 BST

Updated 6th Oct 2010, 00:06 BST

Pieter Brueghel the Younger's 1602 work The Procession to Calvary was moved from its home at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, as part of a campaign to raise 2.7m.

As the Yorkshire Post reported last week, the family who have owned the painting for 200 years want to sell, meaning it could be bought by a private investor.

The National Trust wants to keep the work accessible to the public so has taken it on a nationwide tour to show it off to thousands of people and encourage donations.

The painting will be on show in London until November 9 and then in York Art Gallery from November 18.

Picture: Simon Rawles/The Art Fund